Egypt finishes planting 1.5 million palm trees in the world's largest palm farm
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Egypt
Published Mar 6, 2023
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Dr. Ezz El-Din Jadallah Al-Abbasi, Director of the Central Date Palm Laboratory at the Ministry of Agriculture, said that there is a great interest from the political leadership in cultivating types of palms of high economic value, especially since Egypt's production of dates is not exported in large quantities because most of the cultivated types of dates are in Egypt.
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For externally undesirable varieties. Al-Abbasi added, in exclusive statements to “Akhbar Al-Youm Gate”: “But these varieties that were cultivated are requested from abroad, so President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi decided to establish the largest date farm in the world on an area of 37 thousand acres and includes 2.3 million palm trees in the New Valley, so that Egypt becomes one of the first countries in the production and export of dates. The director of the Central Palm Laboratory pointed out that about 1.5 million palm trees of excellent types such as Majdoul, Al-Khalas Al-Anbara, Ajwa Al-Madina, Al-Shishi and Al-Suqai’i were planted, pointing out that the rest of the plan is being completed and planted, about 800,000 palm trees in the largest palm farm in the world. Dr. Ezz El-Din Jadallah explained that the production of this farm is estimated at about 230,000 tons annually, with an average total of 100 kilograms per palm of the distinctive types of dates. It is noteworthy that ...
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